Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!